Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 18, 1980
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
73 titles
Jason Segel
Biography
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014. He began his career with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Undeclared (2001–2002) before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films in which he has starred, written, and produced. Segel has starred in many comedic films such as Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Bad Teacher (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), and Sex Tape (2014), as well as family films such as Despicable Me (2010), and The Muppets (2011). For his role as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour (2015) he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also starred in the dramas Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Discovery (2017), Our Friend (2019), and Windfall (2022). In 2023, he began starring as a therapist in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which he also co-created alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. For his performance he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
Known For
Filmography
Anxious People
Over Your Dead Body
Dan
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Mooned
Vector (voice)
Shrinking
Jimmy
Windfall
Nobody
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Paul Westhead
The Sky Is Everywhere
Big
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Fezzik
One World: Together at Home
Self
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Peter
Our Friend
Dane Faucheux
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Self
Cultureshock
Self
Come Sunday
Henry
The Discovery
Will Harbor
Rush: R40 Live
Himself
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The End of the Tour
David Foster Wallace
Hot Ones
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Sex Tape
Jay
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
This Is the End
Jason Segel (uncredited)
This Is 40
Jason
The Five-Year Engagement
Tom Solomon
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff Thompkins
The Muppets
Gary
Friends with Benefits
Brice (uncredited)
Bad Teacher
Russell Gettis
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Sydney Fife
Gulliver's Travels
Horatio
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
Self
Conan
Self
Despicable Me
Vector (voice)
Get Him to the Greek
Characters
I Love You, Man
Sydney Fife
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Peter Bretter
Knocked Up
Jason
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
The Megan Mullally Show
Self - Guest
Bye Bye Benjamin
Theodore Everest
How I Met Your Mother
Marshall Eriksen
The Good Humor Man
Smelly Bob
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
LolliLove
Jason
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Leon